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Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro also features a 20-megapixel selfie camera.

Xiaomi on Tuesday announced the launch of Redmi Note 5 in India. Surprisingly, the Chinese company also unveiled a pro version of the device. Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro is touted as “India’s camera beast”, and will retail at Rs 13,999 for the base model. The smartphone’s high-end model is priced at Rs 16,999.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro will be available for purchase starting February 22 via Flipkart and the company’s offline channels as well.

The ‘Pro’ version offers slight upgrades over Redmi Note 5 with its main focus being on the smartphone camera. Redmi Note 5 Pro features a dual-camera setup at the rear which is a combination of 12-megapixel and 5-megapixel sensors with f/2.2 and f/2.0 apertures respectively. Redmi Note 5 bears a stark resemblance to Apple’s iPhone X with the placement of its dual rear cameras.

The dual cameras on Redmi Note 5 work together for depth-of-field effect by blurring out the background and focusing on the subject. The primary camera is said to capture more light than typical smartphone cameras, while the secondary camera creates bokeh effect. The dual rear cameras also feature Electronic Image Stabilisation (EIS) for videos.

For selfies, there’s a 20-megapixel Sony IMX376 sensor with Beautify 4.0 AI algorithm, and selfie light for low-light conditions. The smartphone also debuts Beautify 4.0 Beautify 4.0 which identifies different skin variations. The selfie camera also comes with ‘Portrait Mode’ for bokeh effect making it a first for a Xiaomi smartphone. Here, Xiaomi used a deep learning algorithm to produce bokeh effect on a single camera.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro specifications

Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro has the same 5.99-inch Full HD+ 18:9 display with a 2.5D curved glass layered on top. There are three storage variants for Redmi Note 5 starting with 3GB RAM plus 32GB storage. The mid-variant comes with 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage. The high-end model has 6GB of RAM and 64GB storage, making it the first Xiaomi smartphone in India with this RAM capacity.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro is the first smartphone to run Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 636 processor under its hood. This chipset uses the latest Kyro technology which is usually found in the high-end 800-series chipsets.

Redmi Note 5 Pro runs on Android 7.1.2 Nougat based on the latest MIUI 9 customOS. It’s 4,000mAh battery is claimed to offer long-lasting power along with MIUI optimisations.

SAINT PETERSBURG: A
homemade bomb blast at a supermarket in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg injured 10 people Wednesday, officials said, sparking a
probe into attempted murder.

"According to preliminary information, an explosion of
an unidentified object occurred in a store," a spokeswoman for Russia's Investigative
Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, said in a statement.

The blast was caused by a "homemade explosive device
with the power equivalent to 200 grammes of TNT filled with lethal
fragments," she said.

"The investigation is looking at all possible causes of
what happened," she said, adding that a probe for attempted murder had
been launched.

The incident comes several months after Russia's second city
was rocked with a metro bombing in April which killed 16 people and amid
concern that hundreds of Russian citizens who travelled to fight alongside
jihadists groups abroad could pose a mounting security challenge back home.

Rattled by a one-two
punch of betrayal and scandal, Donald Trump on Thursday tried to block the
publication of a bare-knuckle book that portrays his White House as a fetid
stew of backbiting, incompetence and dysfunction. The publishers
responded by moving the release date up by four days to Friday. Trump instructed his
lawyers to prevent the release of “Fire and Fury: Inside
the Trump White House” -- an expose by author and political muckraker Michael
Wolff -- which quotes key Trump aides expressing serious doubt
about his fitness for office. The book -- which
paints Trump as mentally unstable and far out of his depth -- quotes at length
his former ally and chief strategist Steve Bannon, who also received a “cease and
desist” order from Trump’s attorneys. “Your publication of
the false/baseless statements about Mr. Trump gives rise to, among other
claims, defamation by libel, defamation by libel per se, false light invasion
of privacy, tortious interference with contractual relations, an…